# Staff Software Engineer, Listings & Host Tools and AI

**Company**: Airbnb
**Location**: United States
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $204,000-$255,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/airbnb/jobs/7528577
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_f6271cc8-cf0

## Description

We're looking for a data-focused Staff Backend Engineer to help us craft the next generation of tools for Airbnb hosts.

As a Staff Engineer, you will help drive the technology and implementation strategy to directly help hosts run their business day-to-day, proactively engaging with a wide range of teams and cross-functional partners to achieve your goals.

Your expertise will be crucial in exploring problem spaces, devising solutions to customer problems, and influencing product strategy.

In this role, you will:

- Work with product and ML engineers to explore problem spaces and devise solutions to customer problems

- Prototype new ideas and influence the product strategy

- Proactively collaborate with other engineering teams to develop an iterative plan to improve our APIs and architecture

- Collaborate with other product engineers and partners to develop backend to support data and AI solutions

- Create technical and execution strategies for new projects and drive hands-on implementation of those solutions

- Identify areas for improvement and champion the adoption of best practices in product development, engineering architecture, and testing

- Perform technical design reviews and code reviews

- Mentor and grow more junior engineers

If you have 10+ years of industry experience, experience leading teams, setting technical direction, building & launching high-impact user-facing products, and influencing partners such as designers and product managers as well as other engineering teams, we'd love to hear from you.

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager.

## Skills

### Required
- Backend Engineering
- Data Focused
- Staff Engineer
- Technical Direction
- Product Development
- Engineering Architecture
- Testing
- Mentoring
- Leadership